Photon pair production in gluon fusion: top quark effects at NLO with threshold matching

Autor: Long Chen, Gudrun Heinrich, Stephan Jahn, Stephen P. Jones, Matthias Kerner, Johannes Schlenk, Hiroshi Yokoya
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2020, Iss 4, Pp 1-23 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2020)115
Popis: Abstract We present a calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced production of a photon pair through gluon fusion, including massive top quarks at two loops, where the two-loop integrals are calculated numerically. Matching the fixed-order NLO results to a threshold expansion, we obtain accurate results around the top quark pair production threshold. We analyse how the top quark threshold corrections affect distributions of the photon pair invariant mass and comment on the possibility of determining the top quark mass from precision measurements of the diphoton invariant mass spectrum.
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